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Chapter 3: The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross
Elizabeth Johns
Description: Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
THE EARLY years of the 1870s saw radical changes in the fabric of national life. With economic and psychological recovery from the Civil War hardly resolved, Americans were faced with tides of immigrants, employment in factories...
Author
Elizabeth Johns
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1983 by Elizabeth Johns
Related print edition pages: pp.46-81
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00346.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23371
Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916. Gross ClinicMedical sciences--Study and teachingPainting--TechniqueGross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884

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Chapter 3: The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross